Where's downtown? The Evanston Plan Commission's downtown plan committee will try to answer that question when it meets March 15. The answer will matter as the commission moves on to develop new rules about what should be built in the most intensely developed section of the city.

Evanston-based Northfield Laboratories has dropped efforts to block a San Diego newspaper from publishing information about clinical trials its blood substitute, PolyHeme. Details from the Daily Northwestern.